Okay, honest question: how much preference do people really put into formats?
Because I’ve dealt with webp… I don’t like it, but if I can open it in XnView and convert it to JPEG I’m good. Like my iPhone takes pictures in HEIC and if I send them raw to my wife’s Galaxy phone, it doesn’t open them, but if I convert them to JPEG (Telegram has this option, it’s what we use for rich-text messaging), it’s fine.
I don’t like proprietary formats, but I don’t hate them if I can convert them, or better yet use them. Like I can read and write Microsoft 365 docx and the similar formats for Excel and Powerpoint in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on my Mac. It’s not a problem. PDF can be an issue with Adobe trying to fleece users into paying to type in it, but open it in Firefox and you can type in it just fine. We shouldn’t even have anything by Adobe installed at work but we do. I’m not IT but I’m getting sick of teaching people how to open PDFs in Firefox instead of Acrobat so they can edit the bloody things. All our forms are PDF and I can edit/save them just fine but Acrobat won’t. So I set Firefox as the default but updates change it back.
Okay, honest question: how much preference do people really put into formats?
Because I’ve dealt with webp… I don’t like it, but if I can open it in XnView and convert it to JPEG I’m good. Like my iPhone takes pictures in HEIC and if I send them raw to my wife’s Galaxy phone, it doesn’t open them, but if I convert them to JPEG (Telegram has this option, it’s what we use for rich-text messaging), it’s fine.
I don’t like proprietary formats, but I don’t hate them if I can convert them, or better yet use them. Like I can read and write Microsoft 365 docx and the similar formats for Excel and Powerpoint in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on my Mac. It’s not a problem. PDF can be an issue with Adobe trying to fleece users into paying to type in it, but open it in Firefox and you can type in it just fine. We shouldn’t even have anything by Adobe installed at work but we do. I’m not IT but I’m getting sick of teaching people how to open PDFs in Firefox instead of Acrobat so they can edit the bloody things. All our forms are PDF and I can edit/save them just fine but Acrobat won’t. So I set Firefox as the default but updates change it back.